now it looks different

It started out like this.

After the base was stitched down and the basting removed, I added cutouts from a variety of commercial fabrics, some dyed with coffee, bits of old lace and trim, some buttons.

weaving ways

This is the completed piece.

sneak peek

Another wip completed last weekend, this one was inspired by jude's weaving pieces.

summer slowness

kitchen sink crazy

is now off the design wall. The blocks are sewn together and ready for the backing to be added.

perspectives

For many of my neighbors summer officially commences this week with the conclusion of the school year.


This seemed like a "summery" little wip to complete. Most of the quilting was already done and all I added were the beads, the binding, and some additional quilting.

Despite a ferocious thunderstorm and rain during the night, it's nice to still find these in the yard.

"The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning."  ~Ivy Baker Priest

"If you do not raise your eyes you will think that you are the highest point."  ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

If you look closely, you can still see the raindrops.

time piece

This little quilt is finished and ready to be donated. Components and embellishments include scraps from old prom dresses, bits of lace, buttons, beads, crystals, yarn from Mrs Moen, scrapbooking supplies, a paper bead, and blueberry and coffee stained cheesecloth.

It's titled "Time Piece" because it includes a clock face under the lace and the word "time."

"There is no present or future, only the past, happening over and over again, now." ~ Eugene O'Neill, A Moon for the Misbegotten

 "We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; in feelings, not figures on a dial." ~ Philip James Bailey, Festus

celebration

Paint, beads and a strip of ruched fabric are used to embellish this small piece that started out as a fiber postcard.

As you can see from the back, it is fairly heavily quilted.

Snowballs in the backyard would be reason enough for celebration.

"Celebrate what you want to see more of." ~ Thomas J. Peters

buttons and beads

are the embellishments added so far. More to come . . .

erosion bundle results 2011

These are the results I had hoped for . . .  but did NOT achieve. This remnant from my erosion bundle has been stamped with strawberry halves, creating images that almost look like hearts.


My erosion bundle has been unwrapped, photographed and mostly neglected for the past month. Despite my addition of berries that I was sure would create a red stain, I achieved no rosy results on the fabric.

There was, however, plenty of mottling.

returning to the pond

and a challenge necklace. I've added a few blocks to the Frozen Pond wip that I started last winter.

The colors in the quilt blocks and the necklace are amazingly similar but totally accidental.

all together now

What if I put a selection of artist trading cards together to make one small quilt? I believe it was Eva who made this suggestion and this is a possible arrangement.

embellishing the embellishments

Progress so far on what I'm thinking of as "Kitchen Sink Crazy Quilt." This is the first time the photo hasn't been flipped.

 Yesterday I started embellishing some of the embellishments. I've used washers before but this time I decoupaged them first.

My plan is to start adding them this week.

sing anyway

"Some days there won't be a song in your heart, sing anyway." ~ Emory Austin


The word for this week's Every Inchie Monday is sing and this one is made entirely of paper.


"I have spent my days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung." ~ Rabindranath Tagore


"Truly to sing, that is a different breath." ~ Rainer Maria Rilke


"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song." ~ Maya Angelou

components

As much fun as I had playing with resin a couple of weeks ago, I really admire Mary's work at White Clover Kiln. Every time I visit her blog I can just imagine how I would use her components in both jewelry making and as embellishments on quilts.

studio views

it doesn't look like this

outside today. Instead it has been snowing and my Erosion Bundle will have to wait another day.

In the meantime, I've come across some interesting  posts such as this one by Austin Kleon.

juxtaposition

This is the beginning of a fiber/paper collage that incorporates two sizes of vintage blocks (approximately three inches and seven inches). I've had these blocks for over 25 years and they had belonged to an elderly family friend. I've used some of them before but not together. It appears that the larger (seven inch) block may have been part of a quilt top at one time and then taken apart. The vintage buttons are not yet sewn on and may be re-arranged.

once the winged

Fiber and metal.


As once the winged energy of delight
carried you over childhood's dark abysses,
now beyond your own life build the great
arch of unimagined bridges.

Wonders happen if we can succeed
in passing through the harshest danger;
but only in a bright and purely granted
achievement can we realize the wonder.

To work with Things in the indescribable
relationship is not too hard for us;
the pattern grows more intricate and subtle,
and being swept along is not enough.

Take your practiced powers and stretch them out
until they span the chasm between two
contradictions... For the god
wants to know himself in you.  ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

weaving wip

Jude is the master and I've seen many wonderful examples by her students.  Inspired by her work, this is my first attempt and is still a work in progress.